I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
BEVERLY CLEARYWe didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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